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2
a
Speciall
nneanes
to
keepe
vsfrom
fiding
into
finne.
itbringeth
the
bodie to
death
and
corruption,
and
in the
world
to
come
both
bodie
and
foule
to
condemnation,
and
endleífe deflru6Iion
;
it
depriueth
vs
ofour
heauenly inheri-
tance,
and the eueriafling ioyes
of
Gods
kingdome,
and
plungeth
vs
into
the lake
which
burneth
with
fire
and brim-
¡lone. In
a
word,
there
is
no euill which
can
bce imagined
which doth not
proceede from this
euill
affirm;
and
there-
fore
though it
feetne
neuer
fo
fwccte to our
carnali
appe-
tites,yet being
mixed
with
this gall and wormewoord
of
in-
numerable euils,let
vs
loathe
and
abhorre
it;
when
the
vaine
and vncertaine
benefits which
itpromifeth
moue
vs
to im-
brace
it,
let the
miferable euils
which
accompanie
it,
and
the moll
affured
and
furpaffing
ioyes which
it
depriueth
vs
of,rnake
vs
to
auoide
it
as a
deadly
flinging
ferpent.
CHAP.
VI.
Of
foanefJ
ecrafl
mcanes,
whereby
wee
may
bee
preferued
from
falling into
finne.
{ie
frrlt.
lteGnen is
to
auoide the
oc-
(alien
o
ffimu.
Nd
thefe are
the
reafons
whereby
euerie
one may
be armed againíl
Satans
fug
geflions,
tempting
him
vnto
finne
;
and be
mooued vnto
a
Chtiflian
refolution, ofpoffeflïngbodie
and
foule in
ho-
lineffe and
puritie.
Now
wee are
to
fpeake
of
fome fpeciall
rneanes,
whereby
the
Chrithan thus
refolued
may be
prefer
-
ued from falling
into
fuch
grieuous finnes;
as
wound
the
confcience, and hinder
him in
the
courfe
offanetification.
Firí,
he
that
would
auoide
finne,mufl carefullie alfo
auoide
the
occafions
thereof,
which-
are
ilrong
inducements
to
draw him vnto finne;
for
as
it
is
great
follie
for
a
man
who
dreadeth burning to
be
al
wales
medling with'ñre
and
gun
-
powder:;
fo
is
it
no
leiTe
madneffe
to
thinke that
we
can
pre
-
ferue
our
felues
from
finne, and
yet intertaine,
all occafions
thereof, continuallie
fuffering
the
fparkes
of
Satans
temp-
tations
to
fall
as
it
were
into
the tindar
-ofour corrupt
af-
fe6tions.
:Itis.notpofftble
that
Lice
who
is
inclined to.glut-
tonic